Multiply: Numeracy Skills Programme
Multiply is a new government-funded programme to helps adults improve their numeracy skills. If you’re aged 19 or over, and looking to brush up on your numeracy skills, take a look at our courses or contact the Multiply Team for more information.
All Multiply sessions can be applied in everyday life, such as helping children with homework, cooking on a budget, boosting employability skills, managing finances, and more.
Why not test your level with our numeracy quiz (riddle.com)?
Courses we offer:
Content:
- Explore a variety of ways to help children gain a knowledge of number.
- Create your own resources, exploring school strategies and working with your peers.
Accreditation Details:
Agored Family Programme: Developing a Child’s Knowledge of Number – Level Entry 3
Course Length:
5 weeks
Content:
- Gain knowledge on how to help a child with maths.
- Plan, design, and make a game that can be used in settings, with feedback from children.
- Explore rules of number, mathematical language, and differentiation.
Accreditation Details:
Agored Help a Child with Maths – Level 1
Course Length:
5 weeks
Content:
- Gain knowledge in creating, editing, and entering data into Microsoft Excel.
- Learn basic formulas for performing calculations, as well as formatting features for both text and numbers.
- Learn how to save and print spreadsheets.
Accreditation Details:
Agored Spreadsheets – Level 1
Course Length:
5 weeks
Content:
- Explore personal career routes.
- Identify realistic career goals, along with skills and qualities needed.
- Develop confidence and practice interview skills.
- Improve knowledge of wages
- Identify educational and workplace career routes.
Accreditation Details:
Career Preparation – Level Entry 3
Course Length:
5 weeks
Content:
- Understand the need for personal budgets and money management.
- Learn who to contact for support with household bills.
- Learn to plan your own financial budget.
- Tailored support from Cardiff Council’s Money Advice Team.
Accreditation Details:
Agored Money Management – Level Entry 3
Course Length:
4 weeks
Content:
- Learn about the pros and cons of self-employment and explore different ways of keeping financial records.
- Learn and understand how to set up a tax account and request a unique tax reference code.
- Explore business set up costs and effective book-keeping using spreadsheets.
Accreditation Details:
Non-accredited
Course Length:
1-2 days
Content:
- Learn essential skills in selecting goods based on price and planning the use of money.
- Develop the ability to identify costs, compare prices and manage a simple budget.
- Gain experience shopping online to increase digital skills, confidence and independence.
Accreditation Details:
Agored Budgeting- Level Entry 3
Course Length:
TBC depending on location of course.
Partners and Community Organisations
The Multiply Project has teamed up with The Onsite Construction Academy to provide fortnightly ‘How to Use a Tape Measure’ sessions. The tailored, skills-based, workshops focus on the accurate use of measuring tapes, encompassing both metric and imperial measurements. Construction trainees are provided with tape measures for further practice and on-site use.
As part of our work with hostels across Cardiff, the Multiply Team have been delivering fun-packed 4-day sessions to hostel residents called ‘Cook & Create’. During the course residents have the opportunity to develop their life skills whilst gaining confidence in the kitchen. Participants also get to build their own flat pack furniture and practice their DIY skills. As part of the programme, we’ve been able to gift hostel residents their own supermarket vouchers, air fryers and IKEA furniture so that they can continue to develop these skills independently.
The Multiply Team have worked with schools across the city to deliver non-accredited versions of our ‘Cooking on a Budget’ course. Over the course of 3 weeks, pupils are able to join in with the 3-hour long sessions alongside their parents as a fun engagement activity. Again, with a focus on making meals more cost effective, the children have great fun picking the meals they love, and decorating cakes to share with their friends.
The Multiply Project has teamed up with Splott Community Volunteers at the STAR Centre to provide weekly Arts & Craft sessions for their volunteers, community members and adults supported the Innovate Trust.
The Multiply Team have arranged to visit a number of Older Persons Accommodation across Cardiff to deliver fun number games for residents on a regular basis. Residents will enjoy a range of activities from cribbage and colour by numbers, to a game of darts and coaster decorating.
Do you run a community group that would benefit from our support?
We can offer bespoke training and activities to suit the needs of your users and help them to up-skill.
Contact us:
Email: multiply@cardiff.gov.uk or telephone 02920 871 071